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Brain Waves. Between courtroom sessions, Ruby held an impromptu press conference in which he kept licking his lips, started by speaking coherently, and ended up in tears. "I am very upset about the whole affair," he said. "They've been using the word angry about me, and that word is not in my vocabulary. I never have used the word in my life." He was neither irrational nor incoherent when reporters questioned him about stories that he and Oswald had been mixed up in a sinister plot and that even Fidel Castro had played a role in the event. Said Ruby: "I never talked to Oswald in my life, and I never saw him before, and I never knew him in my life." He admitted that he had been in Cuba in 1959, but said that he had gone there only for a vacation. He did have a plan to export Jeeps and other goods to Cuba. "I wanted to get out of the beer business," he said. He saw no reason for not trying to do business with Castro as the situation then existed. After all, he observed quite logically, no less a figure than Jack Paar had gone to Havana to conduct some friendly interviews with Fidel.
As last week's hearing turned out, Ruby did not get bond. Instead, the court appointed three psychiatrists who will perform neuropsychiatric tests—brain wave, spinal taps, blood serology—to determine if Ruby is suffering from physical, brain-destroying diseases.